Well after a week in Saskatchewan with family and friends celebrating my father inlaws life, who passed away on the 18th of March, and James flying back to Ontario to celebrate the life of his grandmother Grace...we both returned Friday. Just enough time to catch our breath and set up and get ready for Saturday evenings " Sorrow to Glory ", at Uvic's Interfaith Chapel.
This evening was a bit of a creative twist which incorporated interactive stations of art which drew participants into a personal space of reflection and mediation. This part of the evening lasted about an hour and then we moved into a gathering of Lenten reflection and liturgy...there was a flow of movement, word, music, image all weaved through the thematic tapestry of sorrow to glory.
It was an incredible evening of intimacy...that left me breathless. I found writing the initial liturgy was almost like writing a play in which the community would act out. Liturgy is often called the " works of the people ." It was my hope and prayer, that this evening as we gathered we would own it. That with the liturgical frame work, like a loose knit tapestry...we with the Spirit of God, would weave our lives into it. The Spirit of the evening did just that, like a gentle breeze it guided us into a greater understanding of " Sorrow to Glory."
In the center of the flow, Randy engaged us with an inspiring reflection of Blaise Pascal's encounter of Glory in the midst of his sorrow and dispair. Looking at Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa...we discover the greatest glory is found in places of sorrow. We live in a culture infatuated with glory, but Jesus reveals that when we engage the places and spaces of sorrow in the world around us we discover, and reveal the Glory of God.
Two friends deserve a huge thanks, Christine who did an awesome job of choreographing the evening, and " J " who created a great interactive space of creativity. Thank you once again Poasis, for revealing the Kingdom through creativity.
And James Kingsley has some great glimpses of the evening which can be viewed here... Images of Sorrow to Glory.
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